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The Last Secret of the Temple
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted. Ignoring the objections of his superiors, Khalifa re-opens the case, but to do so, he finds he's obliged to team up with a bigoted, hard-drinking Israeli detective.
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- Anoymous
- 13-01-15
Good twists and turns
A pleasant listen, the story picked up quite a bit in the middle. some good moral reinforcement throughout as well!!!!S
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Leslie
- 24-10-06
The Last Secret of the Temple (Unabridged)
Brilliant and very topical book and a brilliant reader to compliment it. I usually only listen to books when driving - I had to continue with this one on my ipod at home.
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- John L.
- 10-11-17
Never thought I would, but I did enjoy this.
Started slowly, but once it got going it really turned into one of those stories you need to find a reason for 'sneaking out to walk the dog' and pick up where you left off the story.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Hilary
- 26-11-07
would have liked a warning
about the use of bad language. The author had a shortage of adjectives and used the F word far too frequently, much more than was necessary for the plot.This was unfortunate because the plot was excellent and I enjoyed moving backwards and forwards between the centuries and the different places, but I DID NOT enjoy the expletives. I found these totally unnecessary and if I had been warned beforehand would not have purchased it. I am not narrow minded but enough is enough of anything.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Glen
- 19-05-11
A good yarn
I thought that this was a good Yarn, it whilled away the time when travelling to and from work in an acceptable manner.
Plot was good, but at times if you were not concentrating could be lost a little so there were one or two times when I had to rewind just to check where I had got to and why I did not understand what had happened.
Enough twists in the plot to keep you interested and guessing till almost the end. I suspect this has been written with one hopeful eye on the movie industry as I can imagine it translating well into a Indianna Jones/Lara Croft type film with enough antagonism between the police officers to add the dramatic interest as the plot unfolds.
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- Kent Bird Lover
- 01-04-21
I LOVED this book - brilliantly told story
of love, friendship, redemption and Nazis.
I'm not in any way dismissing the very serious real world situation in the Middle East. In fact I understand it a little better now. It's therefore a bit slow at the beginning setting the scene, as other readers have noted, but it really gets going about a quarter of the way in.
The narrator does a superb job of bringing the characters to life and I shed a tear at the end, such was the emotion of the final denouement.
I can't wait for the next Khalifa instalment and I hope Ben Roy turns up again somewhere.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-12-20
Very good book
Great story. I liked it enormously. Would certainly look for more from the same author.
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- C.Z.Schipa
- 15-04-14
Not a cosy detective story
It's billed as a detective story and reviewed as an artifact mystery. I'm halfway through it and so far it's mainly a diatribe on the interracial tensions, hatred and atrocities between the Jews and Arabs. And there I was thinking Amelia Peabody might appear!
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- Shell Seeker
- 16-08-21
Not for Me
There's a lot of detail about the region's depressing attitude to women and two hours in, nothing's really happened to move the story forward. The casual brutality may be accurate but I read for entertainment and I was not entertained.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Steve
- 01-02-07
Mediocre
I bought this book because it was billed as 'the thinking man's Davinci Code' Well, I don't know what the man was thinking of. The book is puerile and cliched. Towards the end of the book, an electricity generator untouched for 60 years springs to life after a few cranks.Enough said. I suspect that the narrator was selected for his ability to pronounce Arabic and Hebrew place names. He can be commended for little else. His intonation is appalling, particulary when reading dialogue.
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